Omaha daily bee., 1887-01-19
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska a Jottings.

Nebraska Jottings.
Cherry county receives 81, 800 IN taxes
from the railroads.
O'Neill manages to keep warm with
hard coal at Sli "A ton.
The Beaver City National bank, with n
capital OF $4,000, has been authorized to
begin business.
The business men IN Norfolk were fined
81 each and lecturcd on the folly of dis
obeying a summons to serve on jury.
A slick young man with crush plug
distributed several SO and $40 silver Ger.
titicatcs among the benghtcd in Hast
ings. and disappeared with the proceeds.
Blue Springs papers declare that the
weight of an Omaha lawyers name to n
legal document cost Gage county $500.
Nothing strange about that. Tho county
is to be congratulated on getting off SO
cheap.
The Fremont brewery distributes annu-
ally $50, 900 worth of beer among the
thirsty, and dsposes of $4,000 of I'M
ported beer in the same way. ghe
"Prestiest' is cultivating q nosegay for
immediate use.
The Fremont Herald now "sets" at
night and rises in the morning, having
changed from an afternoon edition. The
Herald is making commendable efforts
to meet the wants of the business COM
munty, as well rs the demand for home
news and democratic provender of
spicy, Independent sort.
An Albion damsel adopted novel
plan of testing the warmth and vigor of
her intended. Removing the fire from
side, she awaited his coming while the
mercury retreated below zero. He came,
he saw, and promptly adjourned the
meeting. The experiment left n huge
feeling of emptiness in the girls palpita-
tor and the parlor sofa.
The attorney of the KANSAS City &
Omaha road gives it out in Hastings that
the Kansas City 81 Omaha road will be
built to Denver right away and that
weather will permit. Propositions will
be submitted to the various precincts
through which the road will pass, right
away. The road will run from Fairfield
through the southern part of Adams
county to Minden, and thence southwest
to junction with the B. & Nj. at Alma.
If the townships in the southern part of
the county refuse to vote the aid asked
by the railroad company the line will
probably run from Hastings instead of
Fairfield. If the aid is voted line will
some time be run out from Hastings and
form junction with the Fairfield line
at some point in Roseland township"
Iowa Items.
Muscatine has twenty-seven open sa-
looms.
Missouri Valley claims population of
5000
The hunt for contraband beer is pro-
ceeding vigorously in Sioux City.
Williamsburg, Iowa county, has found
a coal deposit at depth Of $50 feet.
The scarcity OF hogs about Ottumwa is
seriously interfering with the packing
business of that city.
The state board of medical examiners
have issued 5000 certificates of practice
and rejected forty-tive applications.
There are niaetY-two school houses in
Des Moines county, with 1GS rooms and
1GS teachers, They receive annual sala-
ries amounting to S6S, ,9O2.10.
Wolves are troubling the highways in
Scott county. The severe cold weather
is pinchng their stOmachs and making
the sulky brutes feel carniverous.
j. f. Parker, farmer living five miles
from Sioux City, drove his team over an
embankment on his way home Saturday
night and was crushed to death by the
wagon.
The annual report of the Davenport
postoilicc for 1886 shows profit of nearly
81 1000 month for Uncle Sam. Each
letter carrier handles an average of ! ,5G1
pieces per day during the year.
The father of Conductor AL Kern, who
was killed at Keokuk the other day, died
from the effects of the shock given him
by the news of his sons death. He was
quite an old man and lived at CEDAR
Rapids.
Captain j. w. Campbell, of Fort Mad
ison, who is one of the Oldest citizens in
Iowa. says that Benjamin Jennings taught
HrS m
has the certificate of John Robson, who
taught school in. Gouge's log school
house, a few rods from where the Nor
mon temple stood in Nauvoo, in 1899.
A young frolicsome couple were mar
ried in Muscatine couple of weeks ago
from Buffalo, Scott county. The romance
began on the night previous to the we'd
ding, when they met for the first time.
Two weeks of married bliss demonstrated
that an abrupt separation was the most
practicable proceeding to sommersault
courtShip and marriage, and conse-
quently action for divorce is the pending
lesson in that foolish connubial transac-
tion.
A sad aflliction has befallen the family
OF d. Sellers, living about six miles west
of Wall Lake. Three members of the
family are already dead and three more
are not expected to live. 1t appears that
Mr.. Sellers found one of his fat hogs in
benumbed and almost helpless con-
dilion, and thinking it had been partially
smothered, proceeded to XIII and dress it,
All of the family that partook of the
meat are dead. A friend of Mr. Sellers
from Illinois who was visiting him also
eat of the meat. He returned home
shortly after, and now the report comes
that he too is dead.
Dakota.
Sioux Falls is negotiating for a paper
mill.
Six hundred persons have taken the
piled in Yankton.
Watertown has organized board of
trade and military company.
The mercury rested at 40 degrees
below zero at DeadWOod last Thursday.